Personal, Social, and Emotional Development

1. Dispositions and attitudes

• Shows increasing independence in choosing and carrying out activities
• Shows confidence linking up with others for guidance

2. Self-confidence and self-esteem

• Separates from main carer with confidence
• Have a sense of belonging
• Show care and concern for self
• Talk freely about their home and community

3. Making relationships

• Relates to members in the group
• Demonstrates flexibility and adapts their behaviour to different social situations

4. Behavior and self-control

• Shows care and concern for others, for living things and the environment
• Begins to have an awareness of the boundaries set and behavioural expectations within the setting

5. Self-care

• Takes initiatives and manages tasks

6. Sense of community

• Shows a strong sense of self as a member of different communities (ex. in family, in school setting)

Communication, Language and Literacy

1. Language for communication

• Uses simple statements and questions often with gestures
• Uses intonation, rhythm to make themselves cleat to others
• Question why things happen and give explanation
• Listens to stories and conversation with increasing attention

2. Language for thinking

• Use talk to give new meaning to objects and actions
• Use talk to connect ideas, anticipate what will happen next

3.Linking sounds and letters

• Use talk to recall and relive past experiences
• Show awareness of rhyme and alliteration
• Recognize rhythm, same sounds in spoken words

4. Reading

• Has favourite books, takes care handling books
• Suggests how stories might end
• Knows information can be relayed in form of prin

5. Writing

• Ascribes meaning to marks

6. Handwriting

• Draws lines and circles using gross motor movement
• Manipulates objects with increasing control

Mathematical Development

1. Numbers as labels and for counting

• Uses some number names accurately in play
• Counts with some numbers
• Can rote count to 10
• Recognizes groups of one, two or three objects

2. Calculating

• Sometimes shows confidence and offers solutions to problems
• Finds total number of items in 2 groups by counting all of them

4. Shape, space and measure

• Sustains attention when building and constructing, talks about shapes and arrangements
• Uses, increases and varies size and position language

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

1. Exploration and investigation

• Show curiosity, observe and manipulate objects
• Describe simple features of events, objects
• Sort objects by one function

2. Designing and making skills.

• Join, build and balance construction pieces
• Begin to try out different tools and techniques safely
• Know how to operate simple equipment

3, Information and communication technology

• Show interest in lives of people familiar to them

4. A sense of time

• Begin to distinguish between past and present

5. A sense of place

• Comment and ask questions about where they live and the natural world

6. Cultures and beliefs

• Notice differences in the local environment
• Describe significant events for family or friends

Physical Development and Education

1. A sense of space

• Move freely with pleasure and confidence
• Move in a range of ways (slithering, shuffling, rolling, crawling, skipping, hopping, etc.)
• Adjust speed or change direction to avoid obstacles
• Handle space successfully when playing racing and chasing games

2. Health and bodily awareness

• Sit up, stand up and balance with various parts of the body
• Can control body to hold a shape or fixed position
• Mount steps or climb equipment using alternative feet
• Show respect for other children's personal space when playing among them
• Persevere in repeating some actions/attempts when developing a new skill
• Collaborate in devising and sharing tasks
• Show awareness of a range of healthy practices with regard to eating, sleeping, exercise and hygiene

3. Using equipment

• Construct with large materials (ex. long pieces of fabric, planks)
• Show increasing control using equipment for climbing, sliding, swinging

4. Using tools and materials

• Demonstrate increasing skill and control in using drawing/writing tools, small blocks and construction
• Understand that equipment and tools have to be used safely

Creative Development

1. Exploring media and materials

• Differentiate marks and movements on paper
• Begin to describe the texture of things
• Uses lines to enclose a space, then uses these shapes to represent objects
• Begins to construct, stack blocks, enclosing and creating spaces

2. Music

• Enjoy songs and sing a few simple, familiar songs
• Sing to themselves and makes up songs
• Tap out simple repeated rhythms and makes up some
• Explore and learn how sounds can be changed
• Imitate and create movement in response to music

3. Imagination

• Uses one object to represent another
• Uses available resources to create props and support role play
• Enjoy stories based on themselves and people and places they know
• Engage in imaginative and role play based on own personal experiences

4. Responding to experiences and expressing and communicating ideas

• Further explore an experience using a range of senses
• Begin to use representation as a means of communication
• Describe experiences and past actions, using a wider range of materials